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tommy_g
Helper V
4 years ago
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Need help with Insights

I keep coming up empty when looking for insights. I need an informed opinion (aka "insight") on the following line from the official documentation:   "Anomalies and trends are only supported for bu...
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    GilbertQ
    4 years ago

    Hi tommy_g 


    The way I understand it is that either it has to use the builtin time hierarchy, which I agree I dont use. Or you have to have a column that is datetime and not just date for it to work.

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tommy_g
Helper V
4 years ago

You are correct, Date-Time is required. 

 

We are reporting on a monthly granularity for the high volume facts. So I changed my Report Month field, previousky forced as yyyy-mm-01 to to a DateTime column and the insights appeared. Mercifully, they did not mention that a whole lot of stuff happens at 12:00:00 AM.

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GilbertQ
Super User
4 years ago

Thanks for the confirmation!